Al Gore’s Beard

Obama’s alleged new politics now faces its first legit challenge. “What?!”, say you, “what about the crucifiction of the angry black priest man who dared criticize in angry terms the US?” “Humbug,” says I. Obama has done something far more radical than calling the typical white person racist. He has told the truth.

Gas tax relief is a stupid, though appealing, idea. Obama has said so. He has called it a scheme. He is against temporary repealing of federal gas taxes. WILL THE ELECTORATE approve of such keen insight and economic know-how? Or will they think the cheeky darky is now merely another tax and spend communist??? WHAT ABOUT HIS FLAG-LACKING LAPEL????

As an aside, here is why temporary suspension of the federal gas tax is bad: If gas becomes cheaper, demand will go up. Prices will then increase due to increased demand. Only then, we’ll be paying super high prices (again) except not getting any money for silly projects like roads and bridge construction. THEN, to pay for those things, we’ll re-institute the tax (you totally know at like the worst possible time), only this time it will be tacked on to record-high gas prices, driven up by the increased demand repealing of the tax initially created. Good Idea, John McCain.

I’ve previously cited that the rhetoric about lifting people, helping those disadvantaged, the vision thing, etc. is all hogwash and that the three remaining candidates (and those who previously dropped out) are nothing more than power whores. They are power trippers for the whole of their lives, and there is no greater high for the power-addicted than being the one who answers the red phone at 3 a.m. Or peers into Putin’s eyes, or wrecklessly nukes Iran, and so on.

But the fact of the matter is that only a powerdrunk fool would WANT to grab hold of the reigns at this point. Wages are flat for, like, since Vietnam, which means the purchasing power the filthy masses must possess for economic growth is explicitly tied to their ability to borrow money. Credit, you may have heard, is a little bit scarce right now. Economic growth is going to be a JOKE for at least until the midterm elections in 2010. So there’s that.  Then, like, there’s the devaluation of the dollar and spiking fuel costs. This will ensure all us lemmings will only be able to afford the trip to work and home, with maybe a stop at a warehouse store where we can buy some rationed rice for dinner, 7th time this week. 

Whomever you personally support, wishing for their defeat would likely serve them better than the next presidential term. Seriously. 

John McCain astutely points out the GOP may have trouble attracting black voters. Then, he proclaimed the Earth spherical, and the theatre dead.

I’ve been waaay awol. My apologies. Fortunately, the Democrats are ZERO percent closer to determining who will be falling on the sword, and who will be found less likable than John McCain. Hillary drinks whiskey, Putin is nailing a gymnist, and so on. Also, red state sheriff’’s are using female inmates as sex slaves. Like you didn’t know.  Wake me in August.

PS we need to start making odds and placing bets on the likelyhood of Hillary Clinton spontaneously combusting when she becomes mathematically eliminated from winning the nomination. It will be great television.

Kids, I hope you like war. Our fearless leader has pledged more troops for more killing and more “defense” of the Unites States of America (none of whose sovereign territory is located in Afghanistan, Iraq, or anywhere else) in Afghanistan in 2009. This is interesting because our fearless leader will no longer be in charge in 2009, but somehow he has jurisdiction to make troop decisions beyond his tenure. I love the constitution sometimes!

Prexy Bush says he’ll be sending troops to reinforce a 1,000-strong Canadien force guarding the Southern border, which is irony if i’ve ever heard it.